Rose Gardening Explained
 

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  • How to Choose the Right Roses for Your Garden
    There's an enormous selection of roses that you can grow in your home garden. With such a large selection to choose from, your decision may seem more like a difficult task than the fun that it should be.

  • Rose Classification
    Although there is no one set of "official" classification system of roses, there are many different popular rose classification schemes that are employed throughout the world.

  • Add Beauty to your Home with Climbing Roses
    Colorful climbing roses can add a dramatic effect to your home. They're nice because you can wind them around a trellis, a column, or even let them climb up the side of your home.

  • How to Plant Potted Roses
    It wasn't too long ago that no serious rosarian would even consider having a potted rose on their property except for, maybe, last minute emergencies where they had run out of space but couldn't resist buying just one more plant.

  • Old Garden Roses for a Look That's Antique and Aristocratic
    Old Garden Roses are any of the rose varieties that were recognized and celebrated prior to 1867, the year in which the first modern flower was introduced.

  • The Versatility of Shrub Roses
    The name, Shrub Rose is somewhat confusing because a rose, any rose in fact, is actually a shrub.

  • Miniature Roses Make Great Accent Flowers
    Whether you're planting miniature roses indoors or out, they are very easy to grow.

  • For All-Season Blooms Plant Floribunda Roses
    The name 'Floribunda' is of Latin origin and means "many flowered" or "abundance of flowers" and this variety of rose certainly lives up to its name.

  • Basic Rose Gardening Tools
    Like any job you tackle, the work is always much easier if you arm yourself with the right tools.

  • Common Rose Diseases
    There's nothing worse than seeing all of your hard work destroyed by a rose disease or fungus.

  • Hybrid Tea Rose – The Definition of Classic Elegance
    A modern rose, the Hybrid Tea Rose is the result of two old timers getting together: the Hybrid Perpetual and the Tea Rose.

  • Winter Rose Gardening
    Winter is a time of rest and purification for your rose garden, but it can be a time of disaster as well if you fail to take the proper precautions.

  • The joys of the autumn growing season
    September and October are your rose's finest hour. If you have faithfully followed our suggestions up to this point, you should start to see full, colorful, magnificent blooms as your reward.

  • Early Spring Rose Gardening Tasks
    If you live in an area where you can start seeing the promise of spring in late March or early April, then you're an "early spring" rose gardener.

  • Spring turns to Summer and your Roses need care
    By now you have already been captivated by the first blooms of late April and you're filled with anticipation over the wave of blooms which are yet to come.

  • Beware the dog days of summer!
    Heat is one of the worst enemies that roses face, and the months of July and August can be scorchers.

  • Preparing for the end of season
    The months of November and December can be an awkward time for many rosarians. While the growing season is coming to and end, the winter hibernation season has not yet begun.

  • Rose Pruning Tips
    Pruning and deadheading are important parts of your rose care routine.

  • Tips for cutting roses for display
    What could possibly smell or look better than a vase of beautiful rose blooms on your table or the table of someone you love?

  • Tips for Exhibiting Roses
    Now that you finally have a rose garden that you can be proud of, it's time to take the next step and let others judge the beauty of your roses.

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